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  1. None. I love Europe, and am in Paris right now, but no way I would go in the winter unless I had a specific reason. Not worth the hassle or cost IMO. Nothing outside of ski resorts are open, and if they are, it would be a miserable experience. Walking in the cold, howling wind sucks. (Take it from a “Yankee”) Travel logistics are also heavily affected. Flights are constantly cancelled as are trains. It’s grey, damp, early nighttime and unpleasant.

    Go Southern Hemisphere. Australia/NZ are great in December. Or Rio and Cartagena/Medellin or Bogota/Lima/Cusco-Manchu Picchu.

     

  2. The food in Budapest was surprisingly good. The ketchup they use there would probably beat Whataburger in a taste test. It has a kick of Worcestershire or something. There is a cheap eats place called Kors that has kickass homemade sandwiches and sodas. It’s pretty big with the local crowd, albeit, located in a street no bigger than an alley. The chimneys with cinnamon, vanilla or chocolate powder as a meal in themselves. Everything is dirt cheap. We stayed at the Radisson Blu in an Executive Suite for 28,000 Points. It had a sitting area, living room and 2 King beds. I think the cost would have been $90/night had we paid for it. Some gothic stained glass windows there too.

    I’d recommend a bus tour for sure as well as a night cruise on the Danube. The subway is easy to figure out if you can pay attention instead of relying on announcements. A lot of people speak English so communication isn’t really an issue.

    I had to bypass Istanbul because they had bombed the airport before I went and the had a coup the week after I was scheduled to leave. Still on my list to go.

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  3. 3 hours ago, tokamak said:

    I remember these things, I remember them being good, and I remember crushing a ton of them when I was a kid. But I don't remember there being anything special enough about them to get excited about this for some reason. Especially in a world in which the product that phdhorn posted exists.

    Nostalgia mostly, but they were the best ever. Bringing Utz into the conversation should be a bannable offense. You get a shitload of nasty product. Never had the HEB brand so I can’t comment on those. Planters made the cheese balls/doodles that other companies strived to replicate but never could. I ordered a case of each for a July 18 delivery. If they have a limited run if Hi-C Ecto Cooler too, I may need new underwear...a size bigger.

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  4. On 6/30/2018 at 12:55 AM, Bacon Gayfield said:

    I was pretty pro-choice until about a year ago when I read something on shaggy, actually, that changed my mind. And I'm sure my wife being pregnant has some influence.

    Your wife and you are trying to have a baby. She gets pregnant. You are happy to be starting a family.  Not long after, she is "stabbed" in the stomach by a mugger on the way back to your car. The mother lives, the baby dies. 

    Do you want the mugger that stabbed your wife to be charged with murder?

    Intellectual honesty renders me incapable of denying that yes, I would want them charged with the murder of my unborn baby. 

    Abortion is murder. Beyond rape, incest, danger to mother's life and an imminent life of suffering for the baby, it should be illegal. 

    Your daughter drives home from school, misses a stop sign and sideswipes a pregnant mother. The mother lives but miscarries as a result. Should your daughter go to prison?

    Your son mops the floor at Burger King and puts the Wet Floor sign in an area with an obstructed view. Pregnant woman doesn’t see it, slips, falls and crushes the baby. Should your son go to prison?

    How many ridiculous scenarios and asterisks do you need?

     

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  5. 21 minutes ago, Brew said:

    My wife has decided she wants to go to the UK for our 20th anniversary/40th birthdays. I’m not a fan, but it is what it is. I’m points stupid, so tell me what steps I’m missing here. I’ve got a ton of Chase points, have an AA account, and BA has a direct flight to London from my local airport. Looking at the AA award chart it looks like business class seats are 57,500 miles. Is this whole process as simple as convert 230,000 UR points to AA and then use those to book the BA flights? Do you pick seats at booking like a normal flight or are they assigned later? My normal go to is just to pay for the seats and waste points on something stupid, but these things look to be $12k if I buy them so I may as well burn some points.

    A lot going in here...

    1. UR doesn’t transfer to AA, they transfer to BA.

    2. You can use either AA or BA miles to book your flights on BA. You will probably pay $350 for doing so in taxes and the fuel surcharge. As a comparison, using AA miles would be about $125.00 if the flight is AA metal.

    3. BA has a distance based chart. Make sure the direct flight is available for award redemption in both directions. Just because it’s a route doesn’t mean it’s available for award redemption. Especially direct J class flights into London, which are seen less than Bigfoot. Otherwise, you’ll have to break up the routing and book it in 2 parts since BA doesn’t fly domestic in the U.S.

    4. Couldn’t you just book your flights through UR? If you don’t have enough AA miles to cover it, it’s probably a better bet. Use BA miles for short haul flights instead. Also, look at United since they are also a UR partner. They usually have a better availability, albeit, you will probably change planes and will land at LGW, which sucks ass for arrivals.

    5. You can buy a Coach ticket on BA and use BA Avis’s to upgrade it. Same with AA. If you want to fly J class on BA, this would be a good redemption if the Award flight isn’t there.

  6. 22 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

    Damn, I thought I saw it was only like three miles. Still good, but that's over an hour gone. Shit I was looking at the domestic airport. Damn. Still should be fun though.

    Going in a few weeks. It’s about $120 each way from KEF to downtown in a taxi...FYI

    Stick to the BL. That’s not cheap either, but it’s your best option with 10 hours. You do know that you can stay for up to 7 days for free on WOW as a stopover, right? Let me know how they were. Have seen mixed reports.

  7. Sat in the opposite end zone from the orgasm. Was offered $2000 for my ticket walking into the stadium. I seriously considered it because I was a broke twenty-something Dad and I never win at gambling. I ended up taking down the house that night. I can’t remember either of my kid’s first words, but I’ll never forget how loud The Eyes was that night. My only regret is that it happened before the advent of the smartphone. I still have my Razor with crappy pics and video.

    Plenty of pics from 2009, until I walked into a rooftop pool in Hollywood Hills and almost missed the game because no one could reach me.

  8. 28 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    A song and dance at the White House right now...... It's pretty funny.  Basically, Trump is eating shit right now.  The Republicans are doing everything they can to explain their position and place blame on everyone else (Obama, courts, Democrats, etc, etc), but this is nothing more than a white flag PC. 

    "Fuck, I totally misjudged the situation.  But I'm still right!  But I'm going to tuck tail for now because we're getting killed on this issue."

    It's hilarious too.... a bunch of old white guys making excuses about immigration.  Not one of them folks of color in the room.  I think I did spot a woman.  So impotent.  Hey, there's Cornyn, speaking of impotent.

     

    You do realize that everyone in that room is elected and elections are open to anyone that meets the basic criteria to run, regardless of race or gender...right?

  9. 13 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Well, the folks showing up at port of entries looking for asylum are actively being strategized against by the trump admin, despite following a legal process. In fact, people following the process are in fact being detained and separated. So yeah, I'm calling bullshit on your dogwhistle horse shit. People trying to follow the legal process are being punished because trump and his administration are sociopaths with an ultra-nationalist bent that expresses itself through dehumanizing and abusing CHILDREN. 

    Despite my position on this specific issue, I’m not Right leaning at all. I’ve come to realize that I’m not nearly as Left leaning as I once thought I was either. I probably fall closer to Left Center, which I personally hate because it seems that you’re on the fence. I’m not religious, so I have a fundamental disagreement with a lot of the justifications the Right has for their positions. But, the Left is equally as frustrating to deal with because they always feel that they have the moral high ground in a debate by latching on to something that isn’t even being claimed.

    Fact: Gun violence is rampant in our inner cities, where the murder rate is also the highest. We need to do something about this. “So you are saying that all black people are bad? You hate black people!!!”

    Fact: Mexico is the overwhelming the #1 country where our illegal immigration stems from. We need to implement procedures to stop this. “What?!? Why do you hate brown people?!?”

    Fact: Radical Islam is the #1 cause of terroristic activities the world faces. “Not all Muslims are terrorists, you intolerant jackass! Your life must really suck!”

    Fact: You cannot change your gender biology from a man to a woman. You can claim to be 25, but it does not change the fact that your body is really 42. This does not give license to ostracize those that identify as another gender. “Well, well. Look at the homophobes now! How does this affect your life?”

    We have to somehow solve issues without identifying the cause of the issue because the facts somehow have a racist, homophobic, sexist and moral bias. This has heightened with the election of Trump as he is a vile, despicable man with the class of an aggy. It's making otherwise reasonable people such as yourself completely insane. If you could kindly show me where I have disagreed with your position, it would be beneficial so I can quote my own posts showing that it's completely untrue.

  10. Just now, Mojo Hand said:

    No, you broke it for me.  The entire point of the post was that these immigrants could be legally granted asylum.  Instead Sessions has narrowed the grounds for asylum and is wrongfully turning away applicants from ports of entry.  The right doesn't want them at all, legally or otherwise. 

    Which is 100% a dick move, to be clear on my position.

  11. 5 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    [GOP]Well you see, the children are brown, which means they will grow up to have abortions and commit crimes. Therefore we must cage them now so they won't infest our country[/GOP]

    Are they here legally or illegally? Specify your sarcastic hyperbole. 

  12. 8 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    where do you think that this takes us?  somewhere different than talking about how terrible this is? 

    Absolutely nowhere. I directed my response to a poster specifically and other’s decided to chime in to repeat the chorus of how I somehow have the balls to go against the overwhelming majority’s position without trolling yet am lying when I state that I think separating kids from their parents is an abhorrent tactic. The only thing even remotely close to that position is that I agree that the tactics used in the past have completely failed and I understand the “why” as a means of being a deterrent. Pull that shit with Swam or Escriva, not with me. I think that I’ve been a hell of a lot more respectful to people than I have received in return.

    My post clearly stated what I was asking: Is the “X” factor in her outrage that kids are being separated from their parents? I’m trying to understand if the issue she has is “OMG, they’re putting kids in cages!” or “OMG, they’re putting kids in cages without their parents!” I never heard the former being discussed until recently by either side.

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  13. 6 hours ago, burntorangebongos said:

    Obama put kids without parents in centers when they were crossing by themselves. His administration never had a policy to separate kids from parents if they crossed as a unit. Not sure why clearlake keeps saying but Obama did it and no one is pointing out that kids were NOT separated from parents ever before.

    I understand that you’re responding to a point someone else made, so it’s contextual. But if families were housed in cages together rather than separating the children from the parents, is your position that this would be tolerated? I don’t understand the relevance of Obama’s policy vs. Trump’s to enforce immigration law. Obama’s was better because his buns had no seeds?

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